Marcel Kint
 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcel Kint | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | De Zwarte Arend (the black eagle) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1914 Belgium | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 March 2002 (aged 87) | |||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1935 | Independent (semi-professional) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1936 | Mercier–Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||||
| 1937 | Fr. Pélissier | |||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1938 | Mercier–Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1939 | Fr. Pélissier | |||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1951 | Mercier–Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1951 | Girardengo | |||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
| ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||
Marcel Kint (20 September 1914 – 23 March 2002) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races[1] between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour.[2]
He specialized in one-day classic cycle races and won Paris–Roubaix, Gent–Wevelgem, Paris–Brussels. He was the only three-time consecutive winner of La Flèche Wallonne until 2016 when Alejandro Valverde won his third consecutive race and fourth overall.[3]
Kints honours would have been much bigger but at his sporting peak, his career was halted for a few years by World War II.
The outbreak of the war would make Marcel Kint the longest reigning world champion in the history of cycling. Kint would hold the rainbow jersey until 1946: eight years, and it could have been nine. In the final of the 1946 world championship in Zurich, Kint and Swiss rider Hans Knecht were riding to the finish, when Kint was stopped by fanatical home supporters, causing him to finish second.[4]
Major results
Road
- 1933
- 1st
Junior National Road Race Championships - 1934
- 1st stage 1 Tour of Belgium independents
- 1935
- 1st
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen - 1st Stage 7 Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Bruxelles-Liège
- 1st Ronde van Vlaanderen independents
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium independents
- Grote Prijs van Zwevegem
- 1st Jemeppe-Marche-Jemeppe
- 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
- 1936
- 1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 9th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 19
- 1937
- 1st Gent–Ieper
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne
- 2nd Paris–Lille
- 6th Paris–Brussels
- 10th Overall Paris–Nice
- 1938
- 1st
Road race, World Road Championships - 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st GP d'Espéraza
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 3rd
National Road Race Championships - 7th Paris–Tours
- 9th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 15, 16 & 18
- 1939
- 1st Stages 8A & 18B Tour de France
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st Antwerpen–Gent–Antwerpen
- 1st Ransart-Beaumont-Ransart
- 1st GP Stad Zottegem
- 2nd Paris–Roubaix
- 5th Paris–Brussels
- 5th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1939
- 1st Circuit de Belgique
- 1942
- 1st Gullegem Koerse
- 1943
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Ronde van Limburg
- 1st Brussels-Paris
- 1st Circuit de Belgique
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 8th Paris–Tours
- 1944
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Grand Prix Jules Lowie
- 1st Grand Prix du Printemps
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé
- 1945
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen Ichtegem
- 1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
- 2nd Textielprijs Vichte
- 1946
- 1st Junior National Road Race Championships Interclubs
- 2nd
Road race, World Road Championships - 2nd GP du Locle
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 1947
- 1st Junior National Road Race Championships Interclubs
- 1949
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd Gullegem Koerse
- 2nd Textielprijs Vichte
- 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 1950
- 5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 8th Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 1951
- 1st Elfstedenronde
- 7th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Track
- 1946
- 1st Prix Hourlier-Comès (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 1947
- 1st Six Hours of Zürich (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 1948
- 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 1st Trophée des Routiers (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 1949
- 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- 3nd Six Days of Paris (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
References
- ^ "Le Palmarès de Marcel Kint". Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2006. Velopalmares: Sterckx
- ^ "Marcel Kint". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
- ^ "Palmarès de Marcel Kint (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "Het verhaal van Marcel Kint, die in volle finale de verkeerde kant werd uitgestuurd". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 8 July 2018.
External links
- Marcel Kint at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Marcel Kint
